Building a Powerful Connector from Scratch

Building your own connector may be a good option to explore whether you need a connector with a specific functionality or want to connect to a system without a pre-built connector. While getting started can seem daunting at first, the challenge often becomes much more manageable when you understand the tools and resources that are available.

Join this webinar to:
- Get an introduction to MuleSoft’s SDK, DevKit
- Watch a demo on how to build a reusable connector in 15 minutes
- Get tips and advice from experts who’ve successfully built connectors using DevKit
- Learn what’s coming in the roadmap

Microservices has been an important trend in IT architecture, and many architects and IT executives experience pressure to adopt microservices architecture due to its popularity. Along with this feeling, also comes the belief that microservices architecture can only be implemented in a certain way; this simply isn’t so.

This webinar will take a pragmatic look at helping customers select an architecture pattern that aligns with their business and goals. By leveraging the 6 different microservices patterns, a company can assess which one will work best for their organization.

Attendees will learn:

- The top six microservices patterns
- The advantages and disadvantages of each microservices pattern
- Best practices to make sure an organization’s microservices implementation is successful

More and more financial institutions are partnering with FinTechs and leveraging Application Program Interfaces (APIs) to attract new prospects and to delight current consumers through unprecedented Customer Experience (CX). APIs offer a bridge between systems while paving a digital path to a connected financial ecosystem.

The institutions that are able to drive this digital transformation successfully, do not think of these capabilities as additional channels and services. Rather, these institutions understand that they must move from a vision of banking as a physical network of branches and ATMs, to a digital platform, comprising core capabilities such as account servicing and the provision of financial products that can be accessed wherever, and whenever, customers wish.

Join this webinar and learn how these institutions are building a digital banking platform with APIs.

A billion dollar specialty retailer with over 400 retail stores, New York & Company, is leading the way in building an omnichannel strategy. Recently ranked #3 on the list of best omnichannel retailers, New York & Company is driving digital transformation in retail.

Hear from Alex Pinskiy, Director of Omnichannel Systems at New York & Company, as he reveals their journey and success in building an omnichannel brand and connected store. Learn how New York & Company developed a mobile application with real-time inventory availability and was the first in specialty retail to complete end-to-end transactions using in-store kiosks.

Attendees will learn:

- How New York & Company approached omnichannel and is capitalizing on consumer demand to digitize the in-store experience
- Real-life lessons from an IT strategy that re-platformed to integrate different applications and systems across an entire enterprise
- Practical steps to building a top omnichannel brand and embracing a new IT operating model that tears down the imaginary wall between brick-and-mortar stores and eCommerce

Across industries, consistent branding and engaging consumer experiences are important for commerce. With more and more brands growing their eCommerce presence, it becomes critical for businesses to build a strategy set-up for the future.

Drawing on his experience as former Director of Enterprise Architecture at Macys.com, hear Andrew Latham discuss his predictions for eCommerce and Ani Pandit, Client Architect, walk through the technical architecture of headless eCommerce APIs through customer stories.

Takeaways:

- Why headless eCommerce architecture is gaining dominance
- How to build a successful eCommerce strategy through a composable enterprise and API-led connectivity
- Learn from customer examples how to execute an eCommerce strategy set-up for the future

Every integration engineer is asked 3 questions constantly: Did the message go through? What happened with my file? Can you run it again? In this webinar, Jamie Triplett from Airbnb discusses how he has created integrations with end-user visibility into their operational status and how Mule users can create replay-ability in their messaging and integration patterns, gaining user trust in the process.

Attendees will learn:

- How to create reliable asynchronous message delivery with Mule runtime
- How to build replay-ability into Mule flows
- How to empower users of your Mule apps to know your delivery system is working -- and take action when it isn't

Digital transformation is something that everybody wants to achieve, but not everyone can define. In this webinar, Accenture managing director Davinder Gautam and MuleSoft founder Ross Mason will discuss the problems CIOs are facing in planning and executing their digital transformation strategies as well as solutions to closing the IT delivery gap and achieving their goals.

Attendees will learn:

- What are the obstacles getting in the way of achieving digital transformation?
- Strategies to end the misalignment of business and IT on digital initiatives
- A roadmap to closing the IT delivery gap

It’s clear that reusing high-quality IT assets accelerates onramp and development, yet in most organizations, there is a lack of reuse because discovering, saving, updating and reusing assets is often cumbersome. To solve this costly challenge, we are introducing the new Anypoint Exchange and API designer.

Join this webinar to learn how to:

- One-click save reusable IT assets such as APIs for reuse
- Keep assets high quality, relevant and useful through collaboration
- Increase the reuse of assets by intentionally curating them for specific users

Organizations across all industries have begun to adopt cloud and SaaS technologies as a means of increasing operational efficiencies and improving customer experience. Those who can do so quickly - and securely - stand to reap outsized rewards in the market. But how?

Hologic, a global life-sciences company that manufactures diagnostic products, surgical equipment, and imaging systems, provides a model for how organizations can drive secure cloud technology deployments within an accelerated timeframe. In partnership with MuleSoft and Apps Associates, they were able to go live with Salesforce Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, and Marketing Cloud within a six month period, supporting their continued investment in driving best in class customer engagement.

Learn from Hologic CIO Dave Rudzinsky how the right combination of technology, partners, and internal operating model can help your organization to quickly and securely adopt modern cloud technologies.

Attendees will learn:

- How Hologic leveraged MuleSoft to triple the speed of on-premise to cloud integration
- The strategic role that delivery partners can play in supporting cloud migration initiative
- How Hologic increased project delivery speed by increasing connectivity asset reuse throughout their organization

The mandate for digital transformation in healthcare is clear. The question that IT leaders must answer is not "if" but rather "how?"

In particular, how should healthcare organizations delivering a digital experience for patients? How should they think about balancing existing HL7 point-to-point interfaces with emerging FHIR-based API approaches? How should they think about security? And how should they think about re-use to drive greater agility and increase time to market?

Drawing on its work with 3 of the top-7 US hospitals, MuleSoft has developed Catalyst Accelerator for Healthcare, a set of API designs and supporting reference implementations, that codify integration best practices.

Join this webinar to:

- See a demo of the Catalyst Accelerator solution in action, powering web and mobile channels
- Understand how an API-led connectivity approach can increase speed and agility by driving re-use of API assets
- Learn how Anypoint Platform supports the design, development and management of APIs through a single, unified platform

The mandate for digital transformation in retail is clear. The question that IT leaders must answer, is not "if", but "how?"

In particular, how should Retail organizations deliver a consistent and compelling customer experience across multiple channels? How should they think about internal vs external APIs? How should they think about security for retail APIs? And how should they think about re-use to drive greater agility, increase time to market and support an omnichannel retail experience?

Drawing on its work with 2 of the top 5 global retailers, MuleSoft has developed Catalyst Accelerator for Retail, a set of API designs and supporting reference implementations, that codify integration best practices.

Join this webinar to:

- See a demo of the Catalyst Accelerator solution in action, powering web and mobile channels
- Understand how an API-led connectivity approach can increase speed and agility by driving re-use of API assets
- Learn how Anypoint Platform supports the design, development and management of APIs through a single, unified platform

The mandate for digital transformation in financial services is clear. The question that IT leaders must answer is not "if", but "how?"

In particular, how should financial services organizations respond to the competitive threat, and opportunity, that Open Banking and PSD2 presents? How should IT leaders think about internal vs external API strategies? How should they think about security, regulation, and even compliance? And how should they think about re-use to drive greater agility and increase time to market?

Drawing on its work with 5 of the top 10 global banks, MuleSoft has developed Catalyst Accelerator for Banking, a set of API designs and supporting reference implementations, that codify integration best practices with a focus on account information, payments initiation and legacy modernization use cases.

Join this webinar to:

- See a demo of the Catalyst Accelerator solution in action, powering web and mobile channels
- Understand how an API-led connectivity approach can increase speed and agility by driving re-use of API assets
- Learn how Anypoint Platform supports the design, development and management of APIs through a single, unified platform

Being able to scale successful initiatives fast can be your organization's differentiator in today’s digital environment. It’s not easy for technologists though; 50% of IT decision makers say they were unable to complete all the projects they were asked to deliver last year. That’s a significant IT delivery gap to plug.

ADP, one of the largest global HR services providers, was facing significant issues to deliver and maintain agile and lightweight integrations. One of the ways to address this was to launch the Interface Platform Data Exchange project (known as DEX) to expose APIs and connect to 3rd party interfaces, such as time and attendance systems and learning management systems. ADP is focusing on making connectivity to these systems self-service, allowing them to define their integrations on standard API’s, onboard customers quicker, improve customer satisfaction and broaden their integration capabilities for the future.

Watch this webinar to explore:

- Top tips and best practices on scaling API adoption within your organization
- The ways in which ADP are enabling reuse within their organization, through the creation of a Center for Enablement, to simplify future initiatives
- How ADP are using API-led connectivity and MuleSoft to organize their APIs to increase agility

With their unique position at the centre of an organization, Architects can play a pivotal role to usher digital evolution and transformation in-line with business and IT objectives, including the adoption of Agile, DevOps and other disruptive paradigms.

Join Richard Sey, Head of Development Operations (DevOps), Siemens Energy Management, and Mark Daly, Client Architect, MuleSoft, on January 18 at 10am (GMT) for a live webinar as they look at the key role of the Architect in achieving the new IT Operating model. It will cover:

- A working example from Siemens Energy Management on how they have realised the new IT Operating Model from a business and Architect's perspective to drive operational efficiency, cutting development time by half
- A view of Enterprise Architecture and DevOps from a leader in the field
- What an organization needs to support delivery of the new IT Operating Model, including the creation of a Centre for Enablement (C4E), which has reduced dependency on Central IT in the Lines of Business at Siemens by 25%

Just a few years ago, The Coca-Cola Company (TCCC) was completely on-premises, looking for a way to move toward their cloud-first strategy. Watch TCCC’s presentation from MuleSoft’s Atlanta Summit to learn Coke’s journey with MuleSoft starting from evaluation to how they are currently taking an API-led approach to integration. With this, Coke is now creating great customer experiences and enabling their sales force to continue to lead through innovation.

Attendees will learn how TCCC is using MuleSoft to:

- Implement a microservices architecture
- Automate release management to accelerate time to production
- Move from a COE to a Center for Enablement (C4E) to maximize reuse

This will be a demo on how to best organize projects when developing multi-tier APIs, and how to best organize the process. This will allow developers to write the most efficient code and reuse the same patterns to be consistent.

We will demo a number of advanced tips and tricks for Mule developers, including:

Creating an API strategy and a DevOps practice have become critical competencies for modern IT teams. When successfully implemented, 94% of IT leaders confirm they can deliver products and services to market faster. In this demo-driven webinar, we'll show where these competencies intersect and how leading organizations are using them to move from concept to production code in weeks instead of months or years.

Attendees will learn how to:

- Design and mock an API enabling a design-first approach
- Implement test driven development in Anypoint Studio with MUnit
- Publish the API in GitHub to drive parallel development with teammates
- Create and share a developer portal in Exchange to enable self-service consumption
- Package and deploy the API with Maven and Jenkins
- Control and automate API lifecycle activities with Anypoint CLI

In the United States, the Department of Veterans Affairs is responsible for providing healthcare and other services for over 21 million veterans. Currently, veteran data and health records are housed in a variety of distinct, complex systems, each holding discrete records of veteran interactions with military, community, and VA health teams.

The Digital Health Platform (DHP) strategy, developed in partnership with the Veterans Health Administration (VHA), calls for a cloud-based technology platform integrating Veteran data from VA, military and commercial electronic health records (EHRs), applications, devices and wearables to a Veteran’s healthcare team in real-time.

Delivering on their vision required the adoption of a composable architecture, using APIs to abstract away complexity from EHRs into discrete units of business capabilities, represented via microservices. In this webinar, the DHP team will present methodology and technology insights drawn from the public-private collaboration that built the proof-of-concept, and share the role MuleSoft’s Anypoint Platform helping enable this vision.

Attendees will learn:

- Why EHRs on their own are insufficient to meet modern interoperability requirements
- How APIs can be used to unlock and orchestrate healthcare data for cloud application consumption
- Why microservices can increase IT agility for both government agencies and private sector companies
- How the Digital Health Platform leverages MuleSoft’s Anypoint Platform to improve care delivery for veterans
- What organizations outside healthcare or government can learn from this digital transformation approach

The mandate for applications to change is nothing new. Pushing those changes from design to production in hours, however, is something traditional software delivery models can't handle. DevOps practices have emerged as a viable approach to enabling this speed with quality for increased application performance and better architectures.

In this webinar, we will highlight how DevOps practices and tooling can be applied with Anypoint Platform when implementing and managing an API.

The emergence of FinTech represents both an influx of new Financial Services industry entrants as well as a fundamental disruption in the banking and FinServ value chain. In areas as diverse as payments and lending, the digital transformation of financial technology is challenging long-established business processes as global consumers embrace innovative new service conveniences.

It is not surprising therefore that today’s most savvy banking leaders seek to future proof their business through new customer-centric products and service offerings. And within this hyper-competitive business environment, IT professionals are under increasing pressure to deliver nimble new approaches to meet these requirements more quickly.

Attend this webinar to learn how leading banks are responding to this challenge by leveraging Open APIs to create new revenue models and realize business benefits.

Join us and explore:

- How the financial services value chain has changed, and what that means for information technology and security
- How can banks leverage compliance obligations, like PSD2, as an opportunity to move towards Open Banking
- Why existing development and delivery approaches are no longer fit for purpose

MuleSoft makes it easy to connect the world's applications, data and devices. With our market-leading Anypoint Platform™, companies are building application networks to fundamentally change the pace of innovation. MuleSoft’s API-led approach to connectivity gives companies new ways to reach their customers, employees and partners. Organizations in more than 60 countries, from emerging companies to Global 500 corporations, use MuleSoft to transform their businesses.